Their song ‘Diario de um detento.’ Britian’s BBC4 is featuring a three-part documentary film series on the music and politics of Brazil. Racionais MCs, whose sounds and working class-down image is heavily influenced by West Coast gangsta rap, feature in the third, and final, episode.
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Sound / Racionais MCs
Posted in inequality, Music, police, police brutality on November 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Lucky Dube’s legacy
Posted in inequality, Lucky Dube, Music, politics, post-1994 South Africa, postapartheid, South Africa on November 2, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Reggae musician Lucky Dube‘s tragic murder has ironically resulted in greater attention to his cultural and social significance inside South Africa (he had always had larger fame outside). More immediately, the event itself (he was killed in a failed carjacking incident while dropping off his children at his brother’s house outside Johannesburg) has raised questions [...]
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